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Great news, Whovians! The BBC has just announced some brand new live Doctor Who ‘escape room’ games are coming to the UK.

Game operator Escape Hunt has signed a five-year licensing deal with the BBC to run a series of Who-themed escape rooms, Radio Times reports.

The first will appear in Bristol in December 2018, before Birmingham, Leeds, Oxford and Reading get there own game in early 2019.

London will play host to the interactive event sometime in the future, the Evening Standard hints.

Currently, there’s no word on what the ‘escape rooms’ will actually entail. But we can assume there will be some escaping involved – and a Tardis or two.

Who knows, maybe even the dastardly Daleks will make an appearance.

‘It has been a long-term ambition of the team to be able to bring about Doctor Who-themed escape rooms,’ said Mat Wray, BBC Studios’ Live Entertainment Director.

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‘Our main role here at BBC Studios is to continually extend the fans enjoyment of our brands, and so to be announcing six new live entertainment games across the country to fans is something really exciting.’

In addition, Radio Times says the BBC are also working on plans for ‘a raft of Doctor Who attractions, activities and experiences’ in the future.

There’s alien technology, the flash of a sonic in a dimly-lit room, and a lot of staring off into the distance.

But perhaps the most important bit of information was that the Doctor won’t be marooned on Earth for the duration of the series.

Following Whittaker’s unceremonious ejection from a malfunctioning TARDIS last Christmas, there were concerns that this series would be set entirely amongst humans. Potentially very boring.

Although, with the announcement of the BBC’s new ‘escape rooms’, perhaps the Doctor was just getting a bit of practice in?

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